Susan Zager
@a4breastcancer.bsky.social
Founder Advocates for Breast Cancer Inc a 501(3)c non-profit patient advocate organization. #BCSM https://advocates4breastcancer.org
Opinions are my own.
Opinions are my own.
Reposted by Susan Zager
In order to #MakeCancerLessShitty, we need to support cancer research, not slash it.
#CanSky #OncSky
#CanSky #OncSky
March 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
In order to #MakeCancerLessShitty, we need to support cancer research, not slash it.
#CanSky #OncSky
#CanSky #OncSky
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Words Matter
Words matter. Certain words sting, and one of them is “prevention.” Why? Because “prevention” suggests we know the cause of something and have the power to stop it. For me, that word lands heavy, a…
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March 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Words Matter bcbecky.com/2025/03/word...
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According to the authors of this
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...,
the difference between the prediction provided by PREDICT breast (breast.v3.predict.cam) and that provided by the ludicrously expensive OncotypeDx is that ....
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...,
the difference between the prediction provided by PREDICT breast (breast.v3.predict.cam) and that provided by the ludicrously expensive OncotypeDx is that ....
Current controversies in the use of Oncotype DX in early breast cancer
Multigene prognostic genomic assays have become essential tools in the management of early breast cancer (BC), providing information that help in risk…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
According to the authors of this
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...,
the difference between the prediction provided by PREDICT breast (breast.v3.predict.cam) and that provided by the ludicrously expensive OncotypeDx is that ....
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...,
the difference between the prediction provided by PREDICT breast (breast.v3.predict.cam) and that provided by the ludicrously expensive OncotypeDx is that ....
Reposted by Susan Zager
Recent executive orders have raised concerns among breast cancer experts about potential impacts on patient care. Stay informed about these developments and understand how they may affect access to treatment and health care services. Read the full article here: loom.ly/UuD2UmM
#bcsm #cansky
#bcsm #cansky
What Recent Executive Orders Mean for Breast Cancer Care
An onslaught of executive orders from the new administration has many breast cancer experts concerned. We talked with them to learn more.
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February 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Recent executive orders have raised concerns among breast cancer experts about potential impacts on patient care. Stay informed about these developments and understand how they may affect access to treatment and health care services. Read the full article here: loom.ly/UuD2UmM
#bcsm #cansky
#bcsm #cansky
Medicare stops access to #Telehealth April 1st for almost all. [Even rural pts must drive to a 🏥 office 1st & THEN get telehealth.]
This will lead to:
1️⃣ less access to specialty care
2️⃣ poorer outcomes
3️⃣ higher costs for people with cancer
#Telemedicine was a step forward. Let's not fall back.
This will lead to:
1️⃣ less access to specialty care
2️⃣ poorer outcomes
3️⃣ higher costs for people with cancer
#Telemedicine was a step forward. Let's not fall back.
#Telehealth allows me to see patients on THEIR schedule. I've had consults from patient couches, home offices, from the alleyway outside their retail jobs, & from their cars during lunch break. I am for any tool which enables you to live on your time (not mine). #ASCOAdvocacy
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February 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Thank you @ascocancer.bsky.social for devoting an entire issue of JCO OP to the topic of #FinancialToxicity and thank you to @fumikochino.bsky.social @ryannipp.bsky.social for inviting me to 🖊️ a piece for this, on my experience with financial toxicity as someone with privilege and savings.
🚨 The #FinancialToxicity special issue of JCO OP is LIVE today! 🚨
We hope these papers will encourage the next gen of researchers to generate, evaluate, & disseminate patient-centered, high-quality, evidence-based medicine & policy solutions to close the affordability gap!
ascopubs.org/toc/op/21/1
We hope these papers will encourage the next gen of researchers to generate, evaluate, & disseminate patient-centered, high-quality, evidence-based medicine & policy solutions to close the affordability gap!
ascopubs.org/toc/op/21/1
JCO Oncology Practice: Vol 21, No 1
ascopubs.org
January 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Thank you @ascocancer.bsky.social for devoting an entire issue of JCO OP to the topic of #FinancialToxicity and thank you to @fumikochino.bsky.social @ryannipp.bsky.social for inviting me to 🖊️ a piece for this, on my experience with financial toxicity as someone with privilege and savings.
This! #BCSM #financialtoxicity
🚨 The #FinancialToxicity special issue of JCO OP is LIVE today! 🚨
We hope these papers will encourage the next gen of researchers to generate, evaluate, & disseminate patient-centered, high-quality, evidence-based medicine & policy solutions to close the affordability gap!
ascopubs.org/toc/op/21/1
We hope these papers will encourage the next gen of researchers to generate, evaluate, & disseminate patient-centered, high-quality, evidence-based medicine & policy solutions to close the affordability gap!
ascopubs.org/toc/op/21/1
JCO Oncology Practice: Vol 21, No 1
ascopubs.org
January 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This! #BCSM #financialtoxicity
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Surprised and honored to be included with this amazing group of women in oncology. Pleased to see advocates listed along with MDs & PhDs. We need each other if we are to change the future for those facing cancer. #bcsm #oncology oncodaily.com/positive/100...
100 Influential Women in Oncology: Key Opinion Leaders to follow on Social Media in 2024 - OncoDaily
100 Influential Women in Oncology: Key Opinion Leaders to follow on Social Media in 2024 / 100 Influential Women in Oncology, 100 Questions and Answers about
oncodaily.com
December 30, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Surprised and honored to be included with this amazing group of women in oncology. Pleased to see advocates listed along with MDs & PhDs. We need each other if we are to change the future for those facing cancer. #bcsm #oncology oncodaily.com/positive/100...
@amjohnston.bsky.social @coffeemommy.bsky.social So nice to see both of you recognized by @oncodaily.bsky.social as Influential women in #oncology oncodaily.com/positive/100... #bcsm
100 Influential Women in Oncology: Key Opinion Leaders to follow on Social Media in 2024 - OncoDaily
100 Influential Women in Oncology: Key Opinion Leaders to follow on Social Media in 2024 / 100 Influential Women in Oncology, 100 Questions and Answers about
oncodaily.com
December 30, 2024 at 10:20 PM
@amjohnston.bsky.social @coffeemommy.bsky.social So nice to see both of you recognized by @oncodaily.bsky.social as Influential women in #oncology oncodaily.com/positive/100... #bcsm
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Here’s the most recent #BreastCancer Research Digest - a summary of last week’s publications from select high-impact journals (December 16th-20th, 2024). #ClinicalResearch #CancerTreatment #BCSM #BreastCancerResearch
December 23, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Here’s the most recent #BreastCancer Research Digest - a summary of last week’s publications from select high-impact journals (December 16th-20th, 2024). #ClinicalResearch #CancerTreatment #BCSM #BreastCancerResearch
Beautiful Round-Up with lots of thought provoking & holiday inspiring posts. Thank you Marie and all of this week’s bloggers. 🌲🧑🎄💜 journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com/2024/12/22/w...
Weekly Round-Up: The Christmas Edition
Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which I’ve wanted to sh…
journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com
December 22, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Beautiful Round-Up with lots of thought provoking & holiday inspiring posts. Thank you Marie and all of this week’s bloggers. 🌲🧑🎄💜 journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com/2024/12/22/w...
Reposted by Susan Zager
This holiday season, ask for #genetictesting. It could save your life!! @usatoday.com
🌲 🕎
#hereditarycancer #bcsm #gyncsm #oncsky #pancsm #womensheath #menshealth
#gcchat #sharingiscaring
🌲 🕎
#hereditarycancer #bcsm #gyncsm #oncsky #pancsm #womensheath #menshealth
#gcchat #sharingiscaring
This Christmas, ask for genetic testing. It could save your life.
Anyone looking into genetic testing for cancer should seek support from a genetic counselor; you don't know what kind of information you might learn.
www.usatoday.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:38 PM
This holiday season, ask for #genetictesting. It could save your life!! @usatoday.com
🌲 🕎
#hereditarycancer #bcsm #gyncsm #oncsky #pancsm #womensheath #menshealth
#gcchat #sharingiscaring
🌲 🕎
#hereditarycancer #bcsm #gyncsm #oncsky #pancsm #womensheath #menshealth
#gcchat #sharingiscaring
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Are you living with metastatic breast cancer? Are you interested in liquid biopsy? Join us tomorrow for what is certain to be a lively discussion of two posters presented at SABCS24!
graspcancer.org/events/sabcs...
graspcancer.org/events/sabcs...
Group 5G: Metastatic Breast Cancer; ER+; Liquid Biopsy; Biomarkers - Grasp Cancer
Poster #P3-10-10: Sequencing PIK3CA and AKT Inhibitors in Hormone Receptor-Positive, HER2-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Retrospective Analysis Poster #P1-05-19: Circulating Tumor DNA as a Pro...
graspcancer.org
December 17, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Are you living with metastatic breast cancer? Are you interested in liquid biopsy? Join us tomorrow for what is certain to be a lively discussion of two posters presented at SABCS24!
graspcancer.org/events/sabcs...
graspcancer.org/events/sabcs...
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Spent 90 mins on the #SABCS24 stage, interjecting the advocacy perspective in "From the Trenches" yesterday. It was these voices, and so many others not pictured, that I channeled. Grateful to have them by my side literally & figuratively 💗
December 14, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Spent 90 mins on the #SABCS24 stage, interjecting the advocacy perspective in "From the Trenches" yesterday. It was these voices, and so many others not pictured, that I channeled. Grateful to have them by my side literally & figuratively 💗
Thank you Marie @jbbc for this beautiful & insightful round-up featuring @Bethlgainer @letlifehappen @AMJohnston1315 @SBC_org @mmejendouglas @6state @drchrysopoulo
#bcsm
journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com/2024/12/01/w...
#bcsm
journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com/2024/12/01/w...
Weekly Round-Up
Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which I’ve wanted to sh…
journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com
December 1, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Thank you Marie @jbbc for this beautiful & insightful round-up featuring @Bethlgainer @letlifehappen @AMJohnston1315 @SBC_org @mmejendouglas @6state @drchrysopoulo
#bcsm
journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com/2024/12/01/w...
#bcsm
journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com/2024/12/01/w...
Reposted by Susan Zager
We are going to be bringing #SABCS24 updates to #BlueSky too starting Dec 10th!
Many great colleagues on here including some amazing advocates.
@itsnotpink.bsky.social
@janicetnbcmets.bsky.social
@oncbrothers.bsky.social
@hoperugo.bsky.social
....and others!
@sabcs.bsky.social
#bcsm
Many great colleagues on here including some amazing advocates.
@itsnotpink.bsky.social
@janicetnbcmets.bsky.social
@oncbrothers.bsky.social
@hoperugo.bsky.social
....and others!
@sabcs.bsky.social
#bcsm
November 26, 2024 at 10:18 PM
We are going to be bringing #SABCS24 updates to #BlueSky too starting Dec 10th!
Many great colleagues on here including some amazing advocates.
@itsnotpink.bsky.social
@janicetnbcmets.bsky.social
@oncbrothers.bsky.social
@hoperugo.bsky.social
....and others!
@sabcs.bsky.social
#bcsm
Many great colleagues on here including some amazing advocates.
@itsnotpink.bsky.social
@janicetnbcmets.bsky.social
@oncbrothers.bsky.social
@hoperugo.bsky.social
....and others!
@sabcs.bsky.social
#bcsm
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"Advances in ☢️⚡️ will give the #breastCancer team a growing array of tools to customize treatment plans to individual pt risks & toxicity concerns... with the ultimate goal of promoting high-quality, personalized, & patient-centered cancer care" #bcsm #radonc
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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“When Less is More”: Paradigm Shifts in Radiation Treatment for Early-Stage Breast Cancer - Current Treatment Options in Oncology
Recent advancements in the treatment of early-stage breast cancer have significantly shifted the radiotherapy landscape. Traditionally, the standard of care included lumpectomy followed by endocrine t...
link.springer.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:05 PM
"Advances in ☢️⚡️ will give the #breastCancer team a growing array of tools to customize treatment plans to individual pt risks & toxicity concerns... with the ultimate goal of promoting high-quality, personalized, & patient-centered cancer care" #bcsm #radonc
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Beautiful Thanksgiving round-up curated by Marie Ennis-O’Connor @jbbc featuring @Bethlgainer @HeartSisters @malefitness @preventcancer @ourmbclife @AMJohnston1315 @letlifehappen @crosserriddle @NancysPoint #bcsm
journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com/2024/11/24/w...
journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com/2024/11/24/w...
Weekly Round-Up: The Thanksgiving Edition
Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which I’ve wanted to sh…
journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Beautiful Thanksgiving round-up curated by Marie Ennis-O’Connor @jbbc featuring @Bethlgainer @HeartSisters @malefitness @preventcancer @ourmbclife @AMJohnston1315 @letlifehappen @crosserriddle @NancysPoint #bcsm
journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com/2024/11/24/w...
journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com/2024/11/24/w...
contacted my lawmakers about the need for robust federal funding for the NIH, NCI, and ARPA-H. Join me! #ASCOAdvocacy #BCSM asco.quorum.us/campaign/45495
Federal Funding for Cancer Research
As Congress negotiates Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations bills, urge them to make cancer research a top priority.
asco.quorum.us
November 22, 2024 at 1:15 AM
contacted my lawmakers about the need for robust federal funding for the NIH, NCI, and ARPA-H. Join me! #ASCOAdvocacy #BCSM asco.quorum.us/campaign/45495
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It’s here!!! @ptarantinomd.bsky.social ‘s yearly abstracts to look out for list from #SABC24! Take note #bcsm Also time to follow this superstar (and super nice guy) if you aren’t already!!!
Only 3 weeks to #SABCS24, a meeting that promises to significantly impact the way we treat breast cancer. It will feature phase 3 data with novel SERDs, novel ADCs, immunotherapy, ctDNA monitoring, important biomarker analyses & so much more. Here’s my top 10 abstracts list— see you in San Antonio!
November 18, 2024 at 1:02 AM
It’s here!!! @ptarantinomd.bsky.social ‘s yearly abstracts to look out for list from #SABC24! Take note #bcsm Also time to follow this superstar (and super nice guy) if you aren’t already!!!
Reposted by Susan Zager
ProPublica’s Claim File Helper lets you customize a letter requesting the notes and documents your insurer used when deciding to deny you coverage. Get your claim file before submitting an appeal.
#bcsm #chronicillness
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#bcsm #chronicillness
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Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
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November 20, 2024 at 12:55 PM
ProPublica’s Claim File Helper lets you customize a letter requesting the notes and documents your insurer used when deciding to deny you coverage. Get your claim file before submitting an appeal.
#bcsm #chronicillness
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
#bcsm #chronicillness
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/